Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-23

1000 pieces of New Fall
Prints, latest patterns, to be
seen now at Youmans'.
The gallery is popular in the new
Opere house.
Hard-times prices on cook stoves at
Morris Bros. IL
The Clair Patee company is stopping
at the Grand.
4 girl baby was born TO Mr.. and Mrs.
FL. E. Noble yesterday morning.
The probability is that home oupe
will get up frst-cIass entertainment
for the holidays.
Don't buy Cook Stove until you
have seen Morris. His are Going
cheaper than ANYTHING in town. IL
L. {. Malloy, cashier of the Citizens
National bank returned from a bu ness
trip to Kansas City last Saturday
II. b. Smith, of Osawatomie. Kansas,
is here on visit to his daughter, Mrs.
o. L. Beeson. lie is an old friend and
acquaintance of Mr.. and Mrs. Youmans.
Subject at the Methodist church
Sunday morning, bringing in the
sheaves.' In the evening, Personal
responsibility A song service at
7o'clock, led by Mr.. p. A. Simmons.
Over thirty car loads of cotton have
been raised this season in the vicinity
of NiOta, in Chautauqua county, and
eight car loads of the crop were shipped
east during the past week. The quality
of the crop was excellent.
The first sleet of the season fell last
night and this morning. Let it come
with snow, hail and rain. Barber
county needs and must have a wet,
freezing winter or there Will be no pop
ulatiOn here to celebrate the next
Fourth of July.
w. w. Standiford, E. Youmans and
G. IL. Eldred, Of this place, and Hon.
E. NJ. Hewens, OF Chautauqua county,
started from here last Friday on a gen.
eral prospecting tour through Com
manche, Clark, and other western coun-
ties. Rumor has it that they are on a
big real estate deal.
A company was organized recently at
Belvedere, in the southeast part of
Kiowa county, for the purpose of boring
for coal. A small vein of coal was found
and the prospects for a valuable dis
covery are said to be good. Belve
dere is not far from the Comanche coun-
ty coal discovery.
! w. o. Graham, who has been con-
nected with the INDEX for several
months, will leave to-day for his home
at Harper to assist in conducting an
educational journal to be established
there, in connection with the normal
school. MIR. Graham is a faithful and
upright man and a good workman.
a subscription paper is being eircu-
lated in this city for the purpose of
forming coal, oil and gas prospecting
company. The idea is to raise a sufii-
Gent sum of money to pay for boring
a prospecting hole at this place All
subscribers to the capital stock of the
company will be members of the COM
pany and will share in whatever prohts
may accrue. a large number of citi-
zens have become interested in the
enterprise and the indications now are
that by Dec. 5, the date the first meet
ing Is called. that a considerable und
Will be raised.
The Southwestern Kansas Teacli ers'
association will he held at Wellington
tomorrow and Friday, oath and 18th
Supt. III. 5. Lands. of this county is on
the programme for discussion OF the
subject, "Gradation of county schools, -
and Prof. .. I. BeesOn will discuss the
subject, Reading in the public SCH ool.''
4 dispatch announces that Richfield
is the lawful county seat of Morton
county, the time for appealing from the
decision made by judge Ellis, of this
county, last July, having expired. The
same dispatch says that ten bull ing5
} have been moved from Frisco 20 Rich
, field.
That editor business in "Editha' IS
Burglar" last night was badly over
drawn. Who ever heard of an editor
owning sack full Of silverwaref
What editor ever had anything to will
to anyone? Where could an editor be
going to remain year unless it was
the poorhouse? Strike out the title of
editor and insert banker. Mr.. Patee.